Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 4

Several young men were present: the editor himself stood at his desk, and two little books, both by young authors, were to be noticed. '

Who acts: Several young men, editor · What happens: be, stand, notice · To what, where: two little books, desk

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Several young men, editor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 present	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 present	cop
5	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 editor	det
8	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	nsubj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 present	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 desk	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 desk	nmod:poss
13	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 books	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 books	cc
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 books	nummod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 books	amod
18	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 both	punct
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 books	appos
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 authors	case
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 authors	amod
23	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 both	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 noticed	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 noticed	aux:pass
26	to	to	PART	_	28 noticed	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 noticed	aux:pass
28	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stood	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 present	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 present	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Several young men			present property	tree rules
2	stand	past	the editor	two little books	editor's desk		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at desk=Location
3	notice	past · passive	the editor not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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